The 2013 Edgar Award Nominees have been announced!

Every year the Mystery Writers of America honors the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television and the 2013 Edgar Award Nominees have been announced! I only listed books, but you can visit the official site for a complete list of nominees!

Best Novel

• The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA – Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
• Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning – Five Star)
• Live by Night: A Novel by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA – Riverhead Books)

Best First Novel by an American Author

• The Map of Lost Memories: A Novel by Kim Fay (Random House Publishing- Ballantine)
• Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)
• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary: A Novel by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House Publishing- Bantam Books)
• The Expats: A Novel by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)
• The 500: A Novel by Matthew Quirk (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Reagan Arthur)
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Best Paperback Original

• Complication: A Novel by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)
• Whiplash River by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
• Bloodland: A Novel by Alan Glynn (Picador)
• Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books – Emily Bestler Books)
• The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books) | My REVIEW

Best Fact Crime

• Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
• More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, MD (Medallion Press)
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (Crown Publishers)
• People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil That Swallowed by Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux Originals)

Best Critical/Biographical

• Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed by John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland and Company)
• Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books – Emily Bestler Books)
• The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)
• In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)

Best Short Story

• “Iphigenia in Aulis” – An Apple for the Creature by Mike Carey (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
• “Hot Sugar Blues” – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance by Steve Liskow (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)
• “The Void it Often Brings With It” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tom Piccirilli (Dell Magazines)
• “The Unremarkable Heart” – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance by Karin Slaughter (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)
• “Still Life No. 41″ – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Teresa Solana (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile

• Fake Mustache Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)
• 13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau (Abrams – Amulet Books)
• The Quick Fix (Big Splash) by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books)
• Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dial Books for Young Readers)

Best Young Adult

• Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Brook Press)
• The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George (Penguin Young Readers Group – Viking)
• Crusher by Niall Leonard (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte BFYR)
• Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide – Hyperion)